6-year-old student opens fire during an altercation at a Virginia elementary school, police and school officials said
In this screen grab from a video, police are on the scene of a shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., on Jan. 6, 2023.A teacher was injured in a shooting at an elementary school after a 6-year-old student opened fire during an altercation in Virginia on Friday, police and school officials said.
The unidentified suspect is in custody, Newport News Public Schools said in a statement, adding, "All of the students are safe." "We're beginning the process to reunite parents with students," the Newport News Police Department said in aDrew said officials are looking into how the student obtained the handgun used in the incident."We did not have a situation where someone was going around the school shooting," Drew said. "We have a situation in one particular location where a gunshot was fired.
Newport News is located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area in southeastern Virginia, near Norfolk. One parent said her "heart stopped" when she heard the news of a shooting at her 9-year-old son's school.
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